The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Tag Archives: Mahmoud Abbas
Why Abbas is failing
The Washington Post describes how Mahmoud Abbas has lost popularity. First there was the failure to achieve a cost free advantage. Obama named Mitchell as his peace envoy just one day after taking office in an effort to demonstrate to … Continue reading
Stall. Wait for pressure. Get concessions. Add some violence. Repeat.
Noah Pollak describes Mahmoud Abbas’s negotiating strategy as described in an interview with Jackson Diehl, as a “Princess Bride strategy.” Diehl seems to get it too as he writes: Abbas and his team fully expect that Netanyahu will never agree … Continue reading
Bolstering the unelected kleptocrat
The Washington Post emphasizes what a slender reed the United States is depending on as a key to peace, Abbas’s credibility problem. Unfortunately the article skims over various reasons why Abbas shouldn’t have any credibility to Israel. Abbas, 74, a … Continue reading
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What’s a Jewish state got to with it?
Isabel Kershner of the NY Times reports that “moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas refuses to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed a demand by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to recognize … Continue reading
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Saving Palestinian advertising dollars
So Mahmoud Abbas and co. are appealing to the Israeli people directly. Along Route 2, which follows the Mediterranean coastline, motorists are seeing an unusual sight: a Palestinian flag next to an Israeli one. Below the image appearing on billboards … Continue reading
Names will never hurt me – the double standard
Recently a number of bloggers got bent out of shape by comments made by incoming Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel’s father, “Obviously, he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going … Continue reading
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Tagged Mahmoud Abbas, Rahm Emanuel, Salam Fayyad
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The new Abbas is the same as the old boss
The guy being promoted as the great “moderate” hope of the Palestinians remembers his maximum leader quite fondly. During the memorial, held at Abbas’ Mukataa compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestinian president said, “The path of … Continue reading
Abbas the messenger boy?
Both the Hashmonean and Shira Bat Sarah noted this story in comments. The first mention was in Ha’aretz: U.S. President George W. Bush has apparently offered his Syrian counterpart, Bashar Assad, to press Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights … Continue reading
Abbas at the abyss
Secretary Rice is apparently planning to celebrate the first anniversary of the Annapolis summit with – another summit. Shmuel Rosner describes this proposed summit as maintenance as opposed to a desperate, ill fated and misguided attempt (like Taba in 2001) … Continue reading
Nothing succeeds like Abbas
Daled Amos focuses on one aspect of Dennis Ross’s latest, A Mideast Crisis to avert. In a nutshell, Daled Amos points out that Ross’s argument that the West ought to bolster Abbas because he’s better than the alternatives, is a … Continue reading
Bad bets
I*Consult reflects on the recent rescue of a number of Fatah loyalists from Gaza who were saved by Israel over the weekend. He points out that Israel was simply doing something it had done a number of times before and … Continue reading
The world’s worst motivational poster
I’m sure you’ve seen those motivational posters around. (This parody was created by Despair, Inc.’s Parody Motivator Generator.) I saw this picture and thought it must be the world’s least appropriate motivational poster. Israelly Cool! thinks it’s part of a … Continue reading
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